Sunday, April 30, 2006

Tumblin' Keith

Should I risk it, Keith Richards asks himself before climbing the coconut tree (image courtesy: www.newsphoto.nl)

I shouldn't have, says the Keef after the fall(image courtesy: www.speakuponline.it)

My childhood was almost entirely spent on top of a guava tree (good fruit, but monkeys were a common hazard) and two mango trees (one bore the picklin' mango and the other, the aromatic "dasheri".) There's nothing better than spending some alone-time on a tree. But a coconut tree?